New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 75pp. Paper-covered boards. Slight wear at the extremities, else very near fine, a bright copy in near very good dust jacket with rubbing and a few small chips at the extremities. George B. Wilbur's copy, with his name on front flyleaf, and several neat, ink annotations, and a few slight pencil scorings, throughout the text, revealing biographical references to Aiken in the verse. Signed by Wilbur on front flyleaf: "George B. Wilbur, MD, South Dennis, [Massachusetts]." Wilbur was Aiken's Harvard classmate (Class of 1912) and lifelong friend. The character in Aiken's *Ushant* (named Jacob in the book) is based upon George B. Wilbur. Wilbur was a physician who practiced psychiatry on Cape Cod and was also editor of the important periodical *American Imago*. Conrad Aiken dedicated one of his poems in *The Charnel Rose* (1918) to Wilbur.
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